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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2001
Filed:
May. 28, 1999
James M. Crawford, Jr., Flower Mound, TX (US);
Brian M. Kennedy, Coppell, TX (US);
Tiaohua Lin, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Narayan Venkatasubramanyan, Coppell, TX (US);
Arun Kunchithapatham, Irving, TX (US);
Karel Zeithammer, Tervuren, BE;
i2 Technologies, Inc., Irving, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for searching a problem space. In an exemplary application, the search constructs a plan associated with a business enterprise and the problem space is a model of the enterprise. The search is divided into subsearches. Each subsearch is performed by a subsearch process having its own goal data, termination data, problem data, problem selection process, move process, and script. The script of a subsearch determines whether the current state of the search shall be advanced by a move of that subsearch or by another subsearch.